“WAGs... That's a technical term we engineers use. It means 'Wild-Assed Guess'.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it, simply because they couldn't believe any government would tell such an absurd story unless it were true.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“I am an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy, Sir—" Venizelos felt an undeniable rush of adrenaline and pleasure as he faced the burly captain squarely "—and the Royal Manticoran Navy does not 'bluff.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“McKeon: “You know Hauptman is going to deny they had anything to do with it [smuggling].”
“Forty-three million in illegal peltries? Of course they will, just as Mondragon's captain insists the space fairies must have brought them,” Honor said ironically.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“They could hate her guts all they liked as long as they did their duty.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“Fail not in this charge at your peril.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“Manticore System's G0 primary and its G2 companion were dim behind her, reduced to two more stars amid millions, for the Junction lay almost seven light-hours from them.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“But Haven had become a threat. After almost two T-centuries of deficit spending to shore up an increasingly insolvent welfare state, Haven had decided it had no choice but to turn conquistador to acquire the resources it needed to support its citizens in the style to which they had become accustomed, and the People's Navy had proven its capacity to do just that over the course of the last five decades.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“one of the first signs of a self-destructing aboriginal culture always seems to be an increase in the use of drugs and intoxicants,”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“But every time I told myself one lie, I had to tell another to justify the ones that came before it.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“If one of her officers needed reprimanding, she would attend to it in private, just as she made it a point to deliver praise in public.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“That thought let her banish the grin at last, because if independent command was what every good officer craved, a captain all alone in the big dark had no one to appeal to. No one to take the credit or share the blame, for she was all alone, the final arbiter of her ship's fate and the direct, personal representative of her queen and kingdom, and if she failed that trust no power in the galaxy could save her.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“Whatever it took, she would discharge her own duties and meet her own responsibilities. Not just to protect her career, but because they were her duties and responsibilities.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it,”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“All right, Chief Killian." She allowed herself an airy gesture at the forward visual display. "That away—full military power.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
David Weber
Born place: in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States
Born date October 24, 1952
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“Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings.' It is to turn the world into this world. ('This world'! As if there were any other.)
The world, our world, is depleted, impoverished enough. Away with all duplicates of it, until we again experience more immediately what we have. ”
― Susan Sontag, quote from Against Interpretation and Other Essays
“To see the full miraculous essentiality of the color blue is to be grateful with no necessity for a word of thanks. To see fully, the beauty of a daughter's face is to be fully grateful without having to seek a God to thank him.”
― David Whyte, quote from Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“If we’re starting over,” he says, quietly, “is it too early to say I love you?”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“What did I want to say? I had been struggling to find the words that would sum up how I felt, but the right ones would not come. I wanted to say I loved her. That there would be a hole in my heart forever where she had once been. That she had scared the hell out of me, irritated me beyond belief, and I didn’t know how I could possibly face the weight of the magic that was now mine without her support, her strength, her churlishness. I felt my hand shaking, so I raised my glass. “To Mother,” I said.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Source
“Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of observation and analysis. Self-interest with her was high, but not strong. It was, nevertheless, her guiding characteristic. Warm with the fancies of youth, pretty with the insipid prettiness of the formative period, possessed of a figure promising eventual shapeliness and an eye alight with certain native intelligence, she was a fair example of the middle American class—two generations removed from the emigrant. Books were beyond her interest—knowledge a sealed book. In the intuitive graces she was still crude. She could scarcely toss her head gracefully. Her hands were almost ineffectual. The feet, though small, were set flatly. And yet she was interested in her charms, quick to understand the keener pleasures of life, ambitious to gain in material things. A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy, which should make it prey and subject—the proper penitent, grovelling at a woman's slipper.”
― Theodore Dreiser, quote from Sister Carry
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